No Less Than Victory, Jeff Shaara
No Less Than Victory, Jeff Shaara
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No Less Than Victory
A Novel of World War II

Author: Jeff Shaara

Narrator: Paul Michael

Unabridged: 25 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/03/2009


Synopsis

No Less Than Victory is the crowning achievement in master storyteller Jeff Shaara’s soaring World War II trilogy, revealing the European war’s unforgettable and harrowing final act.

After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of weeks, that Hitler and his battered army have no other option than surrender. But despite the advice of his best military minds, Hitler will hear no talk of defeat. In mid-December 1944, the Germans launch a desperate and ruthless counteroffensive in the Ardennes forest, utterly surprising the unprepared Americans who stand in their way. Through the frigid snows of the mountainous terrain, German tanks and infantry struggle to realize Hitler’s goal: divide the Allied armies and capture the vital port at Antwerp. The attack succeeds in opening up a wide gap in the American lines, and for days chaos reigns in the Allied command. Thus begins the Battle of the Bulge, the last gasp by Hitler’s forces that becomes a horrific slugging match, some of the most brutal fighting of the war. As American commanders respond to the stunning challenge, the German spear is finally blunted.

Though some in the Nazi inner circle continue the fight to secure Germany’s postwar future, the Führer makes it clear that he is fighting to the end. He will spare nothing–not even German lives–to preserve his twisted vision of a “Thousand Year Reich.” But in May 1945, the German army collapses, and with Russian troops closing in, Hitler commits suicide. As the Americans sweep through the German countryside, they unexpectedly encounter the worst of Hitler’s crimes, the concentration camps, and young GIs find themselves absorbing firsthand the horrors of the Holocaust.

Presenting his riveting account through the eyes of Eisenhower and Patton and the young GIs who struggle face-to-face with their enemy, and through the eyes of Germany’s old soldier, Gerd von Rundstedt, and Hitler’s golden boy, Albert Speer, Jeff Shaara carries the reader on a journey that defines the spirit of the soldier and the horror of a madman’s dreams. No Less Than Victory further solidifies Shaara’s reputation as this era’s most accomplished author of historical military fiction.

About The Author

Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of A Chain of Thunder, A Blaze of Glory, The Final Storm, No Less Than Victory, The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure—two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives again in Tallahassee.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mr. Matt on June 11, 2015

No Less Than Victory brings Shara's trilogy about the US experience in WW2 Europe to a close. And I have to admit I was wrong. The book was better than I had expected. After the last book I was ready for a let down. In the previous book, The Steel Wave, Germany was still game. Rommel was still Romme......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on July 13, 2021

Here we see the events as the war winds down (with Germany attempting last gasp fights including the battle we call the Battle of the Bulge). We see the fatigue of the soldiers, the degeneration of Hitler, the disintegration of the German Army...and the setting up of the "Cold War". Again, actual eve......more

Goodreads review by Karl on August 29, 2023

Third in this 'America in WWII' series. This book spans from the Battle of the Bulge (December, 1944) to the fall of Berlin (May, 1945.) As usual, Shaara does a wonderful job of putting the reader in the action and the history: as a foot soldier and as Eisenhower, Patton, Von Rundstedt, and surprisi......more

Goodreads review by Barnabas on March 02, 2025

This the best in what is an exceptional series. Shaara is brilliant.......more

Goodreads review by Steven on June 13, 2010

From the Battle of the Bulge to the end of the war against Germany. . . . Jeff Shaara here completes his World War II trilogy. His method is by now familiar. He takes a series of people and uses their view of the action as his narrative device. The strength? A personal view of the war. The weakness?......more


Quotes

“[An] incisive portrait of war . . . Jeff Shaara [is] one of the grand masters of military fiction.”—BookPage
 
“A powerful evocation of the war in Europe . . . impossible to put down until the very end.”—Huntington News Network
 
“Fans of military fiction will definitely gobble this up.”—Publishers Weekly
 
“Vividly portrays the war’s final act.”—Pensacola News Journal